LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Whitby, Yorkshire. — In the early hours of the 2nd of November, 1956, the motor fishing vessel Lend Us, of Whitby, put out to go to the fishing grounds. By midday the weather had deteriorated, and as the fishing boat was due to return to...

Scottish crews out in numbers Ravaged by remnants of the hurricane season, the British Isles were soaked and windswept in late summer 2004. At the end of one of the wettest Augusts on record, the rough sea conditions off the northern tip of...

I AM sure that readers who are not attracted by a tale of perils at sea in open boats will find much to surprise and hearten them in General Seely's " Launch ! " It is an animating book, for it has implications which involve...

Sea Rhine founders I would like to thank you and the crew of the Great Yarmouth and Gorleston lifeboat for your help when you came to the assistance of Sea Rhine off Lowestoft on Wednesday morning, February 11.

It was a...

COLONEL JOSEPH BENSKIN, D.S.O., O.B.E., died on the 14th of July, 1953.

He had been a member of the Com- mittee of Management since 1929 and a Vice-President since 1948. He was appointed a member of the Finance Committee in...

NOVEMBER 17TH. - GREAT YARMOUTH AND GORLESTON, NORFOLK. At about 10.20 A.M. the police asked for the services of the life-boat to land a badly wounded man from a steamer in the roadstead. The sea was rough, with a moderate S.S.W. breeze...

THREE BOATS CALLED Bembridge, Isle of Wight, Selsey and Shoreham Harbour, Sussex. At 3.5 p.m. on i8th February, 1964, the coastguard told the Bembridge honorary secretary that a naval Sea Hawk aircraft was missing between St. Catherine's...

A CONSIDERABLE number of the Life-boats of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTI- TUTION are manned by "boatmen," a term comprising men who employ several different means of obtaining their living in boats, but chiefly applied to...